MANİSA ŞER‘İYE SİCİLLERİ: KATALOG VE ÇEVİRİYAZI ÇALIŞMALARI
MANISA SHARIA REGISTRY BOOKS: CATALOGUE AND TRANSCRIPTION STUDIES

Summary/Abstract: Manisa, the administrative and economic center of last prince’s sanjak of Ottoman Empire, is located in the Western Anatolia, has rich production region with its demographically multicolored and crowded population, large and fertile lands, is located on transit transportation routes, and its in the hinterland of the international trade city, Izmir. It is one of the distinguished cities with its distinctive features such as its location. Manisa, as a Turkish settlement unit, the sharia registry books constitute the most comprehensive and important corpus of local records of the Ottoman period historical resources of the city and the region it reprecents. Today, Manisa kadi registries are classified in the Meşihat Şeriye Registry Books (MŞH.ŞSC.d) fond of the Presidential State Archives Ottoman Archives. In total, 13 of the series of 435 sijils are from 16th century (2,98%), 154 of them in the 17th century (35,40%), 70 of them belongs 18th century (16,09%), 144 of them in the 19th century (33,10%) and 54 belongs to 20th century (12,41%). When the distribution of the registers over the centuries is evaluated by pages; 3.499 (3,75%) pages belongs to 16th century, 42.004 pages (45,09%) from the 17th century, 11.751 (12,61%) pages belongs to 18th century, 26.964 (28,95%) pages belongs to 19th century and 8.923 pages (9,58%) belongs to 20th centry. In total, there is a collection of documents totaling 93.141 pages. It is understood that 365 of mentioned books (83,90%) belongs to the central district of Manisa and the 70 registers (16,10%) constituting the second group are the sijil books of other districts (Akhisar, Demirci, Kırkağaç/Soma and Kula) of the Saruhan Sanjak. Of the total 93.141 pages of archival documents that make up the corpus of documents, 80.464 (86,38%) pages belons to center of district and 12.677 (13,62%) pages belongs other four districts. To date, there have been many researchs written using the information in the registers, as well as postgraduate theses containing the transfer and evaluation of registers to Turkish alphabet as transcripsions. This article, which deals with Manisa’a local history resource treasure in a comprehensive manner, includes information about the process of Manisa sharia registers reaching the present day, the current books catalogues, statistical analysis of the created inventory list and the determination of theses consisting of studies based on texts transferred to Turkish alphabet.

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